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For the past ~6 months, I've been getting internet through Wifi, with the router in my neighbor's house and and extender in mine. The signal is pretty strong, 3-4 bars, and I usually get 15-20 mbps download and 4-8 upload, measured by speedtest.net. However, the past 2 months, every so often the connection will drop to .5-2 mpbs download, often dropping completely for a few seconds at a time. Now, one would think this would obviously be a network problem; someone's microwave is killing the wifi signal, or the neighbor is downloading 100 gigs of pony porn. But, here's the weird thing; rebooting my box will invariably fix the problem for 10-15 minutes, then it comes back. Windows Defender and Malwarebytes both came up negative, and the Task Manager didn't show anything using network. Cybertron Predator, Windows 8.1, AMD 6-core, 16 gigs ram, GeForce GT 740 USA Googled and read FAQ: yes Gynovore fucked around with this message at 04:01 on May 8, 2016 |
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Gynovore posted:For the past ~6 months, I've been getting internet through Wifi, with the router in my neighbor's house and and extender in mine. The signal is pretty strong, 3-4 bars, and I usually get 15-20 mbps download and 4-8 upload, measured by speedtest.net. However, the past 2 months, every so often the connection will drop to .5-2 mpbs download, often dropping completely for a few seconds at a time. After a reboot when things are fine open cmd prompt (as administrator) and type tracert 4.2.2.2 Then when things go bad do another tracert 4.2.2.2 Post both logs here.
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May 9, 2016 22:30
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Zogo posted:After a reboot when things are fine open cmd prompt (as administrator) and type tracert 4.2.2.2 OK thanks. The problem hasn't come back yet, I'll post when it does.
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May 12, 2016 20:19
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OK, so the problem finally came back today... and now rebooting doesn't fix it. Here's the tracert: 
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Jun 4, 2016 14:42
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Gynovore posted:OK, so the problem finally came back today... and now rebooting doesn't fix it. The fact that you're getting an asterisk on 10.0.01 shows something isn't right on the local network. I'd use this program to check the WiFi and post screenshots of the results: http://www.metageek.com/support/downloads/download-inssider-win.html
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Jun 4, 2016 21:49
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Zogo posted:The fact that you're getting an asterisk on 10.0.01 shows something isn't right on the local network. Not spending $150 on this, nope. Is there an alternative?
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Jun 5, 2016 18:45
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Gynovore posted:Not spending $150 on this, nope. Is there an alternative? Looks like they started charging. Try this one: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/downloadnow/5936/?evp=905ced4c089662c30ab1e8abb195fc3e&file=1
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Jun 5, 2016 22:28
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Sorry, for the delay, I finally ran that and it seems like my Wi-Fi is healthy. I'm on a desktop which never moves relative to the extender, so it's unlikely that that connection is the problem; most likely on the other network, which I don't have access to. Things have been fine the past week. I'm actually starting to wonder if speedtest.net is a reliable metric of your connection's health. It was recommended to me by a bud who supposedly knows his poo poo, but I dunno.
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Jun 15, 2016 22:48
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Gynovore posted:I'm actually starting to wonder if speedtest.net is a reliable metric of your connection's health. It was recommended to me by a bud who supposedly knows his poo poo, but I dunno. It's good to verify you're getting speeds inline with what the ISP says you should be getting but as far as using it as a diagnostic tool it's not very helpful. Of course if your connection is flaky and unreliable then speedtest.net will just be a crapshoot.
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Jun 16, 2016 21:04
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